Quotes about Oppression
The Negro was taught to speak the white man's tongue, worship the white God, and accept the white man as his superior.
- Malcolm X
The white man is a devil. If he is not a devil, let him prove it!
- Malcolm X
...the collective white man had acted like a devil in virtually every contact he had with the world's collective non-white man.
- Malcolm X
God is more lasting than the white man.
- Malcolm X
Sheep, cattle, men-servants were all possessions to be sold as it pleased their masters. It were a good thing were it still so. For else no man may compel nor tame the servile folk.
- Martin Luther
I may be crucified for my beliefs and, if I am, you can say, "He died to make men free.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I have a dream! To be free at last! Free at last! Free at last. And if a man has nothing to die for, Then his life is worth nothing.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
To deny a man a job is to say that a man has no right to exist.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
So long as a man-of-war exists, it must ever remain a picture of much that is tyrannical and repelling in human nature.
- Herman Melville
How oft, in nations gone corrupt, and by their own devices brought down to servitude, That man chooses bondage before liberty. Bondage with ease before strenuous liberty.
- John Milton
False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons.
- Joseph Franklin Rutherford
And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman?
- Sojourner Truth